Sweden: Trial's End

The hand-picked members of Bertrand
Russell's "International War Crimes Tribunal" were all dolled up for
their denunciation scene. French Novelist Simone de Beauvoir glittered
in a silver lame blouse, while Playwright Peter Weiss, who had worn a
corduroy jacket all week, donned a grey, striped business suit for the
occasion. But all the pomp and ceremony could not add one bit of
suspense to the peacenik extravaganzaor respectability to the
"verdict." After nine days of canned and Kafkaesque testimony by
Russell's loyal witnesses, Tribunal President Jean-Paul Sartre declared
that the U.S....